Want to know a secret? Regardless of what classroom challenges, standards or initiatives you’re faced with from year to year, there are seven keys to great teaching that never change—and that are often overlooked! In this bestselling book, internationally-acclaimed authors Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker reveal the seven simple secrets of effective teaching that can be applied in any classroom. Whether you’re a new or experienced teacher, you’ll gain valuable insights on improving instruction, classroom management, discipline, student motivation, and much, much more! This updated Second Edition contains timely topics such as incorporating technology to enhance your lessons and using social media appropriately. Special Features: Easy-to-use format: The book is divided into seven secrets shared by highly effective teachers. Each secret is then divided into seven parts filled with practical information on why the secret matters and how to implement it effectively. Reflection questions: At the end of each section, there are seven questions to help you determine whether you have mastered each secret. Bonus lists: This special new section contains lists on the qualities of effective teaching and why these qualities matter. These lists can be copied and used during book studies, PLC meetings, or staff meetings to provoke thoughtful discussions and enhance teaching and learning. Study guide: A study guide is available to help you extend your learning independently or with colleagues. www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138783621 Companion website: For more inspiring, informative books from Todd and Annette, check out our special site, www.routledge.com/cw/breaux, going live this summer. Throughout the book, you’ll find practical examples and heartfelt advice to encourage you as you implement the seven secrets. As you improve your teaching, you profoundly influence the lives of those who matter most—your students!

This book translates "thinking like a rocket scientist" into every day thinking so it can be used by anyone. It’s short and snappy and written by a rocket scientist. The book illustrates the methods (the 7 secrets) with anecdotes, quotations and biographical sketches of famous scientists, personal stories and insights, and occasionally some space history. The author reveals that rocket science is just common sense applied to the extraordinarily uncommon environment of outer space and that rocket scientists are people, too. It is intended for "armchair" scientists, and for those interested in popular psychology, space history, and science fiction films.

No matter how much or how little you already know about the Eucharist, the "secrets" revealed here will bring you to a new, personal "Emmaus" experience, again and again. Perfect for personal devotion, catechesis, study groups, book clubs, and theological studies, The Seven Secrets of the Eucharist will rekindle the "Eucharistic amazement" called for by Pope John Paul II.

EDITION 2: Revised with some new material gathered through 13 years of teaching these concepts at writers conferences.-------------Want to bring characters to life on the page as vividly as fine actors do on the stage or screen? Getting Into Character will give you a whole new way of thinking about your writing. Drawing on the Method Acting theory that theater professionals have used for decades, this in-depth guide explains seven characterization techniques and adapts them for the novelist's use. You'll discover concepts that will lead you to understand and communicate the motivation and psychology of all your characters. These highly effective techniques will help you: ~ create characters whose distinctive traits become plot components ~ determine each character's specific objectives and motivations ~ write natural, meaningful dialogue that moves the story forward ~ endow your characters with three-dimensional emotional lives ~ use character motivation to bring action sequences to exuberant life ~ write convincingly about any character facing any circumstance

Dave Alty's, The Universe's Guide to the Seven Secrets is an offbeat, satirical odyssey into our dystopian future, as sobering as it is farcical. It mixes the humour of Kurt Vonnegut with the hilarity of Douglas Adams. So, what's it all about? Well, words and music for a start, with magic, and a little time travel for a middle, then the secrets of the universe and the search for a perfect life to end. Or, perhaps, when all's said and done it's simply about an average guy being confronted by an explosion of creativity after having the good fortune of attending university in middle age. Travelling through time it takes a comic look at the dystopian future we may expect if we carry on down the dodgy old socio-political road we're on right now. There's music in there too. Music and music nostalgia, particularly from the 60's 70's and 80's. Oh, and there's secrets, of course there is, but not just the seven in the title, there's eight and the eighth, or sex secret, will have your partner looking at you in a most peculiar way! Existentialism; the various uses and misuse of technology; artificial intelligence becoming creative; costs of fame; religion and its place in the modern world, and another biggie - is the mind its own place? - are all in here. Can we will ourselves to become who we want to be and if we could, where would that leave us? Yes, it's all here, but anyhow, whatever it's about humour certainly plays a big part, and it can't be stipulated enough the higher the level of your knowledge and understanding, the deeper the depths of your insight and reward. Knowledge is power.